If you are choosing the django stack, I would advise staying within the built-in template system. Jinja2 is a great project and I wish it was easy to integrate

If you are choosing the django stack, I would advise staying within the built-in template system. Jinja2 is a great project and I wish it was easy to integrate with django. I tried it through coffin http://github.com/dcramer/coffin http://github.com/dcramer/coffin and got hit by a few views from the contrib.auth models that had to be rewritten. If you want to plug django-apps, you will have to patch and maintain them to work with Jinja2. Coffin uses a nice trick to reload the view functions code with a Jinja2 version of render_to_response and RequestContext: http://github.com/dcramer/coffin/blob/master/coffin/contrib/auth/views.py http://github.com/dcramer/coffin/blob/master/coffin/contrib/... Note that django 1.2 will include 'Smart' if tags and Template caching if that is what you are looking for in Jinja2: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2-alpha-1/#smart-if-tag http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2-alpha-1/#s...